It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

I violently dislike you, ' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.

Like beliefs, in most cases, we don’t create our values… others do.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.